Re: [TLS] Please discuss: draft-housley-evidence-extns-00

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Martin Rex <martin.rex@xxxxxxx> writes:
>Stefan Santesson wrote:
>> If we leave the concept of evidence out of scope and leave it to the
>> lawyers to worry about, is there any technical merits?
>
>Well, this amounts to
>
>  Capture&sign it all the bits and let the lawyers sort it out.

More importantly, what does it give us over "log the transaction in accordance
with established business practice and legal precedent"?  This whole
discussion seems to be following the path of the nonRepudiation bit boondoggle
in which a bunch of techies came up with a cool idea that, once lawyers looked
at it, was found to be totally meaningless.  If you're trying to define a
mechanism that has legal standing then you can't leave the lawyers out of it
or you'll just end up with another nonRepudiation bit.

Peter.


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